Yang Yun followed the older woman"s gaze towards his chest. He traced his fingers along with the tread around his neck and stopped when it reached a ring. Yang Yun glanced at Chief Ye and noticed that she was waiting for him. He hesitated a few seconds before he removed the ring from his neck.
After Mingyue had disappeared, he asked someone to turn his wife"s thumb ring into a necklace. Whenever he touched the thumb ring, he would often blame himself. If only he had listened to Mingyue and turned the ring into a necklace earlier, then, his wife would not slip away from his grip.
"Here," Yang Yun said as he handed the ring to Chief Ye.
The old lady held the ring as if it was a precious item as she studied the ring without saying a word. After a while, she looked at Yang Yun. "The girl was wearing this ring when she disappeared, correct?"
"Yes," Yang Yun nodded. His face looked forlorn as he recalled that day. "She"s my wife. I held on to her hands when the force tried to pull her away. In the end, this ring slipped off her thumb, and she slipped away from me."
The mood in the room suddenly grew heavy as everyone heard Yang Yun"s words. When Mingyue was taken away, both Princess Lingchen and Prince Lu Wei were both presented. When that incident happened, everyone on the scene seemed frozen in place. No one acted quickly enough to help both Yang Yun and Mingyue. When they snapped out of their trance, all they saw was Yang Yun"s panic and frustration.
Aside from Yang Yun, Princess Lingchen too was tormented by guilt. MIngyue has been looking for Shadow Gra.s.s for her sake. She harvested the herb for her. If only she had reacted quickly, she might be able to help and stopped her cousin from leaving.
"So that"s how it was," Chief Ye nodded. She then understood the reason why she could trace some kind of power from the ring. "Young man, would you hand this ring to me for safekeeping?"
"Why? What are you going to do?"
"This ring could be the object that could connect us to the world your wife was sent to," Chief Ye said. "Because the girl was wearing this ring when she was pulled away, I could detect a stronger power coming from this ring. If you gave me this ring for safekeeping, then I have a way to maintain the power or else, the presence of the other world might disappear before five years."
"If that"s the case, then I will entrust the ring to you, Chief Ye," Yang Yun said.
"Don"t worry. I will take good care of this ring. When the time comes, I will return it to you," Chief Ye said. She took up a porcelain container hidden in her clothes and kept the ring in that container.
"Does this mean you have a way for us to find Mingyue and bring her back?" Jiang Xiao Tian asked. His hands tightened into a fist under his full sleeves.
Jiang Xiao Tian was afraid that if he gets too excited, he will only be disappointed when Chief Ye rejected their request to help them. After all, the first time he asked Prince Lu Wei about the tribe, the Prince had pretended that he knew nothing. The first time Jiang Xiao Tian asked Chief Ye to help them, the chief had said that it would be impossible. It was after a few times of meeting them did Chief Ye agreed to help.
Chief Ye looked at everyone in the room and nodded. "Yes."
Princess Lingchen gasped as she tried to control her excitement. The thought of having Mingyue to return home brightened up their mood.
"What I can do is to help you to open up a pa.s.sage that leads you to the time and s.p.a.ce where your wife was taken," Chief Ye said. She turned to Yang Yun and spoke, "Yang Yun?"
"Yes, Chief Ye?"
"I guess you will be the one who will enter through the portal and look for your wife," Chief Ye continued.
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"Of course," Yang Yun looked at the old lady with determination. He did not fully understand what the chief was saying, but once he heard that he have to enter through the portal and looked for Mingyue, Yang Yun did not hesitate to agree.
"Someone will need to enter the portal and headed into the other side, and that person is you," Chief Ye said to Yang Yun. "Once you arrived, you have to look after the girl before you can bring her back. I will do something that can hold the connection between our world and the other side so that you will not get lost."
Chief Ye looked at her grandson and nodded. Then, she turned to the Crown Princess, clasped her hands and bowed. "Your Highness, tomorrow, Wei Wei and I shall depart and return to our home."
The Crown Princess stood up quickly. "Chief Ye, what"s the rush?"
"There are a lot of things to prepare before I can open up the portal," Chief Ye said and glanced at Yang Yun. "I will have to ask this young man to come along with me and train. Without proper training and knowledge, it will be difficult for him to pa.s.s through the portal."
Princess Lingchen let out her breath. For a second, she had thought that Chief Ye was planning to back out from helping them to look for Mingyue. She turned to Jiang Xiao Tian and instructed him to help Chief Ye get ready.
"Chief Ye," Yang Yun hesitated. "Is it possible for you to delay the trip? I still have a few matters to handle in Da Cheng before I can follow you back."
"Of course. I didn"t mean for you to depart right away," Chief Ye said. "Wei Wei and I will depart first to prepare a few things. I will give you a week to settle what you need to settle. Then, you should head to Sui Country. I will send over my men to welcome you."